Author Archives: John B Ledger

Lost Summers: Stories From Forgotten Space

It doesn’t feel like we’ve had a summer for years now. Climate Change may or may not be making July/August wetter, but this plays only a small factor in the loss of summer, if any at all.  Even when the sun beams down the colour looks faded. The taste is gone. All the more recognisableContinue reading “Lost Summers: Stories From Forgotten Space”

Interviewed for Art Saves Lives International magazine

This gallery contains 7 photos. Originally posted on ASLI MAGAZINE – creating change:Artist John Ledger ? John Ledger, 31 from Yorkshire, United Kingdom is an artist who specialises in fine art and drawing. With a self professed existentialist nature, John continues to search for what he defines as a “breathing space” in order to find the answer to one of life’s big questions “who amContinue reading “Interviewed for Art Saves Lives International magazine”

“I spend hours looking sideways, to the time when I was fifteen”

I must first of all explain how I was alerted to these lyrics from The Fall’s track Frightened, it’s only fair: via a great Youtube lecture by Mere Pseud who referenced them with a not-too-dissimilar-intent as my intent. But when I heard him echo the lyrics to his lecture audience I thought: that’s my lifeContinue reading ““I spend hours looking sideways, to the time when I was fifteen””

This Is Not a Top Song List: My Life Through Joy Division Tracks

“They keep calling me” Amidst the pretty stark turbulence I experienced as 2015 began I became obsessed with trying to write something about Joy Division’s eternal-presence in my life. But I never got anywhere, convincing myself it needed to be a project of  a sizable, I-know-everything-about-Joy-Division, quality due to the task of writing about oneContinue reading “This Is Not a Top Song List: My Life Through Joy Division Tracks”

Stories From Forgotten Space

I seem to be at a point of bringing quite a few important works to a point of closure. I and have Finally made my blog series,  Stories From Forgotten Space,  into physical book form. Despite a few frustrating errors made by Blurb’s book publishing program, the minor imperfections can’t take away the central positionContinue reading “Stories From Forgotten Space”